![]() ![]() She convinces him to make a speech during the concert. Everything seems normal until Elena, the younger of the two daughters, sneaks away to make contact with a former Soviet sympathizer. Raisa flies to New York with her girls and students. ![]() Leo suspects something will go wrong, but this is dismissed as his old paranoia from his days working for the MGB. We find her arranging a joint American-Soviet concert in New York. As Leo has slipped into obscurity, his wife has rise as a teacher. The first part of the book shows Leo living as low profile an existence as possible with his wife, Raisa, and two adopted daughters. But after the high drama of the first two-thirds of the series, this book was kind of a let down. Perhaps this was the author’s point, that all the terror and suspicion were pointless. There’s a keen sense of how pointless it all is. But by the time we’ve rejoined Leo Demidov in 1965, everyone feels tired and disillusioned. As you read, you felt at least a piece of the fear and paranoia of that time. Those first books were marvelous portraits of life in Soviet Russia. I am sorry to report that it doesn’t compare to the previous two books. Agent 6 is the last book in a trilogy detailing the trails and travails of Leo Demidov, former MGB agent. ![]()
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